Today is National Punctuation Day?!

Sure, we all had fun with International Talk Like a Pirate Day, but today is a day that's a little more important to the future of human communication. September 24 is National Punctuation Day, a day to give a...

Pupil gains marks for exam expletive

What the ....?"A student who scribbled an expletive on an English language exam paper was awarded 7.5 percent for accurate spelling and effective communication, The Times newspaper reported on Monday.The pupil,...

Which is proper: Visitor Center, Visitors Center, Visitor's Center or Visitor...

Visitors Centers are most useful and helpful institutions. One thing has been bugging me though with respect to these centers. It seems like there is an ever so slightly different way of naming them.

Txts Hrtng Ltrcy: WTF?

The analysts involved in this study go on to assign a singularverb to a plural noun, but we'll let that one slide; evidently the ubiquity of SMS as a means of communication is reducing Irish schoolkids to monosyllabism. "The fatal attraction between Irish young 'uns and...

Perfecting Your Digital Rsum

"You spent hours scrutinizing every word and punctuation mark of your résumé. You listened to the criticism and advice of one proofreader after another telling you exactly how to make your résumé flawless. Now it's perfect and you are ready to send a digital résumé to...

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